Un Crache-Sang , dans les calanques de Marseille

Philoursmars

Ahhh what a nice beetle! A fun fact about bloody-nosed beetles is that they exude bright red hemolymph (bug blood) by breaking membranes in their mouths as a defensive behavior - the hemolymph apparently tastes very bad to predators. Here’s a nice photo of that:

Photo by Muftillo

Another fun fact is that the larvae are very fat and good:

Photo by Greeney5

Thanks for sharing! As always, submissions don’t count towards the one (1) nice bug per day.